Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "哈比人歷險記" in Chinese language version.
... —prefigure the largely bourgeois preoccupations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.
But their chief role was to offer sage advice: Merlin as a tutor and counselor to King Arthur; Gandalf through stories and wisdom in his itinerant travels throughout the countryside.
As apt a description of Thorin Oakenshield as of the dwarf-lord of Nogrod; but yet when we see Thorin in person, ... there is a notable addition, a comic pomposity altogether suitable to what Tolkien intends in The Hobbit...
... —prefigure the largely bourgeois preoccupations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.
But their chief role was to offer sage advice: Merlin as a tutor and counselor to King Arthur; Gandalf through stories and wisdom in his itinerant travels throughout the countryside.
As apt a description of Thorin Oakenshield as of the dwarf-lord of Nogrod; but yet when we see Thorin in person, ... there is a notable addition, a comic pomposity altogether suitable to what Tolkien intends in The Hobbit...